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In this story, a woman was at her wits' end when a coworker in a time zone seven hours ahead of hers insisted on repeatedly messaging her after she had officially finished work. As a result, she decided to let her team know that she would be completely offline for work issues after 6 PM, and any emergencies could be dealt with over the phone.
While most who worked with her accepted her boundary, this colleague got upset when he tried to contact her about an issue he was facing and received no response, as it was late evening her time. The incident split the opinion of her coworkers, and she wanted to know if she was in the wrong.
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Am I wrong for hard muting my coworker after hours and then missing an "urgent" issue?
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People agreed that she had done the right thing.
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Data analyst refuses to answer work messages outside of working hours, coworker 7 hours ahead protests when she won't respond to 'urgent' problem at 9 PM: 'On a random Tuesday I counted 47 notifications after 6 PM'
It has long been observed that one of the difficulties of working in the modern corporate world is that if you're not careful, you never truly clock out. The evil trifecta of emails, Teams, and Slack can be used to reach you 24 hours a day if you let them. This is a problem that is only intensified if you work remotely, or even more inconvenient, have coworkers who live in a totally different time zone from you.
While it can be beneficial on a business level to have people who work all over the world, it can be a pain from the perspective of individual employees. It becomes especially important to set hard boundaries about your work hours; otherwise, you can guarantee that somebody who is just starting their workday is going to try to bother you while you are ready to go to bed and prepare for the next hectic 8 hours.
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